After ten years of toiling away in Hollywood, I realized that there’s no better place for new ideas than comics.
BRIAN K. VAUGHANAfter ten years of toiling away in Hollywood, I realized that there’s no better place for new ideas than comics.
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I know I’m a grumpy old man, but I’m always more delighted by readers talking about the actual comics than people talking about how eager they are to have their favorite comics be “elevated” into another medium.
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My mom once told me that a good relationship isn’t where the other person makes you feel better, but where they make *you* better.
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Life is mostly just learning how to lose.
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Some people are haunted by their pasts, but not my family. I mean, how can you be haunted by something that never really dies?
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No. No, first comes boyhood. You get to play with soldiers and spacemen, cowboys and ninjas, pirates and robots. But before you know it, all that comes to an end. And then, Remo Williams, is when the adventure begins.
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I genuinely am sort of an emotionally stunted man-child, so if I just write to the top of my intelligence, it sounds like a teenager.
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I’m still digesting the ’90s. It takes some time to get perspective.
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We describe [Paper Girls] as Stand By Me meets Terminator.It’s a story about nostalgia and childhood, but with an action-packed, sci-fi bent.
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I remember seeing Stand by Me, when I was around 12, and just feeling like, “This is so refreshing to see kids swear and smoke cigarettes like my friends.” It just felt much more real than the Sesame Street version of childhood that I’d been spoon-fed.
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I’m 40 now, and I have children of my own. Before I forget my own childhood completely, I want to take some time to take a look at the ’80s and think back.
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Pacifists are like vegans, I’m more of a vegetarian. I enjoy fish and occasional maulings.
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Doesn’t matter if it’s personal or professional, a good partnership takes work.
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Immigration confuses and terrifies me, so why not try to write a comic and make some sense of it?
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Next up, I’m going to grow a big, disgusting beard, just so people will start talking about Alan Moore and me in the same breath.
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What cruel creatures men are. Our bodies tell us to love so many, but there’s room in our hearts for so few.
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